IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976MN0552364
  • User Pedon ID: S1976MN0552364
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976MN0552364
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN2364
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47661
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 43.7972107
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6849213
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 104N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet south and 1500 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: north of root river
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN055—Houston
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN055—Houston County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-G6—Rushford East, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Leuth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 174
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • PSC - 66 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2011
  • Classifier - Robert A Leuth
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moneycreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 66 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/1976
  • Classifier - Robert Leuth
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsinan formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/28/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RA Leuth
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

    overstory
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    0009

    LA CRESCENT 0.7 N, MN US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots and many fine roots; common very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236402; moist when described;
    E—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and common fine roots; common very fine and common fine pores; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236404; moist when described;
    Bt1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; common fine tubular pores; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236406; moist when described;
    Bt2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; few fine tubular pores; coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236407; moist when described;
    Bt3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236408; moist when described;
    BC—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots; coats on all faces of peds; fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and coarse distinct ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN236409; moist when described;
    C—145 to 152 centimeters (57.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds; medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, and 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MN236410; moist when described;